Voters Want Trump to Nix Wall Talk During SOTU

Mon., Feb. 4, 2019

More than six-in-ten of voters want Donald Trump to talk about “improving healthcare system” and “jobs and economy” during tomorrow’s State of the Union address, while only third want to hear about his wall across the southern border.

The Trump Wall ranks 12th of 13 subject categories, according to a Morning Consult survey released today.

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Feb. 5, 2019, by Joe Honick

Once again, Ron has missed not just the boat but the whole fleet of facts. Decrying the defense industries who defrauded the country of billions of dollars and were proven to have done so is hardly putting down anyone doing good for America. Bernie Sanders in an outstanding address to the Senate made that case years ago. Too bad he, as usual, failed to follow it up. If readers and Ron would like to study these realities, simply call it up on Google or any other fact finder. personally witnessed the presentations of those charges beyond Bernie's. Ron and other readers might choose to read the 1961 speech of a guy named Eisenhower who warned of the "military-industrial" dangers.

Feb. 5, 2019, by Ronald N. Levy

Does God favor one side over another in war? Napoleon's wisdom was that "God favors the side with the heavier artillery!"

These days wars are arguably won not so much by troops aided by weapons as by weapons operated by troops. So victory may go to the side with better weapons and weapons contractors.

It's not a question of which contractors give you the biggest bang for the buck but which contractors give you the biggest bang. If our bang is bigger than the enemy's, bucks hardly matter.

Decrying "profiteering" defense contractors is like complaining about "profiteering" drug companies that also save our lives. What profiteth those who saveth their own money but loseth their own lives?

Weapons that win are priceless because in war as in PR, it is more economical to win than to lose.

Feb. 5, 2019, by Joe Honick

One more point in reaction to Ron's "interesting" comment about people wanting to know what's in it for them. A war that began in earnest almost 17 years ago with the invasion of Iraq and spread to Afghanistan has been a gold mine for profiteering defense contractors...paid for by people called "taxpayers" who also have the right to get some returns. Ron and other readers might profit like the defense folks simply by googling up a list of who they are and what they have made...in a conflict once defined as "Mission Accomplished"!

Feb. 4, 2019, by Ronald N. Levy

Right! Voters predictably want to hear what our kids want to hear when we come home from a trip: what do you have for us?

One could figure that more border security is something voters can get, but border security doesn't seem as delightful as more money, less taxes, or a guest workers program so we can have nannies and cleaning ladies we can afford.

Benefits! What will you be giving us is what voters want to know. That's PR reality. Some accounts pay $1,000+ an hour for it, Trump could have it free but he may feel above a need for PR wisdom.

Feb. 4, 2019, by Joe Honick

No doubt at all, Kevin, these are popular but not populist choices. As we all should know by now, the people don't mean a damned thing to Trump in his decision making. If we or they did, he would stop killing off environmental constraints and disgracing us by reneging on our words of honor and treaty agreements. Of course healthcare should be a primary concern and is threatened by Trump's refusal to accept the idea that coal smoke, like tobacco smoke, can cause all sorts of illness for workers and those who breathe their products.

No, the statistics put together that plead the realistic and insistent public concerns will only be attended if Trump should have some sort of epiphany and stop hiring lobbyists who undermine the purposes of the cabinet posts for which he appoints them.